Blackthorn House

First edition (UK)
Author	John Rhode
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Lancelot Priestley
Genre	Detective
Publisher	Geoffrey Bles (UK) Dodd Mead (US)
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The Telephone Call
Followed by	Up the Garden Path

Blackthorn House is a 1949 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.^[1][2] It is the forty eighth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age armchair detective.^[3]

Synopsis

A man finds that the car he has recently bought is stolen property. Even more alarmingly there is a corpse with a body concealed in it, that links to the country mansion Blackthorn House.